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But Git is so great because it is so decentralised. Everyone says that. I should use Git, they say, because Git still works offline and it's so decentralised. And doesn't depend on centralised servers like ‘the evil SVN’. Then that shouldn't be a problem for anyone ;-)
Git and GitHub are not the same thing
I know. and there are many other ways to host your code. The current GitHub outage shows that most Git users just can't live without a commercial entity stewarding their code though.
It's a convenient way to work together remotely. I'm in the US and my partner for a project is in Portugal. GitHub isn't the only solution, but it's very convenient.
Yeah, saying “most GitHub users can’t live without a commercial entity” is such a nonsense. GitHub is successful while it works well. The moment it doesn’t, there will be other services.
I don't see it. How does downtime show that?
The reactions are shocked enough.